A new ransomware outbreak today and has hit some major infrastructure in Ukraine including Kiev metro. Here are some of the details about this new variant. Drive-by download via watering holeRead More →
Microsoft explains how its next-gen security can protect files from being encrypted by ransomware extortionists. The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is rolling out now with a security feature thatRead More →
A new ransomware is being distributed by the Magnitude exploit kit: Magniber (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_MAGNIBER.A and TROJ.Win32.TRX.XXPE002FF019), which we found targeting South Korea via malvertisements on attacker-owned domains/sites. TheRead More →
Appeal of ransomware sees sales rise from $250,000 in 2016 to over $6m in 2017 – and some ransomware sellers are now pocketing a salary of over $100,000 a year.Read More →
For years, cybercriminals have been extorting victims by locking their computers with malware. The hackers promise to give the victim their files back as long as they fork over theRead More →
Administrators of various underground hacking forums hosted on both the public Internet and Dark Web are having serious discussions about the ethics of allowing the sale of ransomware via theirRead More →
Several hospitals part of the NHS Lanarkshire board were hit on Friday by a version of the Bit Paymer ransomware. The NHS Lanarkshire board includes hospitals such as Hairmyres HospitalRead More →
Greek police arrested a Russian national, Alexander Vinnik, 38, for his role as owner of the BTC-e Bitcoin trading platform. In the US, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally indictedRead More →
Over the weekend, Emsisoft security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered a new ransomware called Reyptson that is targeting Spanish victims. Since then, we have seen increased activity in the ransomware’s developmen. Today security researcher MalwareHunterTeam took a deeperRead More →
Yesterday, Malwarebytes malware researcher Marcelo Rivero discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that is appending the .EXTE extension to encrypted file names. This article provides a brief summary of information related toRead More →
The master key to the original version of the Petya ransomware – not to be confused with the latest and massive Petya/ExPetr outbreak that swept through the Ukraine and partsRead More →
A fourth ransomware campaign focused on Ukraine has surfaced today, following some of the patterns seen in past ransomware campaigns that have been aimed at the country, such as XData, PScrypt, andRead More →
The NotPetya ransomware that encrypted and locked thousands of computers across the globe yesterday and today is, in reality, a disk wiper meant to sabotage and destroy computers, and notRead More →
Tuesday saw a second major cyberattack in as many months, affecting several countries and dozens of major companies — and that’s just the start. Some of the dust has settledRead More →
Despite being an expanding threat, ransomware infections are rarely reported to law enforcement agencies, according to conclusions from the 2016 Internet Crime Report, released yesterday by the FBI’s Internet CrimeRead More →
Nayana, a web hosting provider based in South Korea, announced it is in the process of paying a three-tier ransom demand of nearly $1 million worth of Bitcoin, following aRead More →
The hack targets computers worldwide running on Microsoft Windows 2003 It exploits a known flaw in the servers, triggering a buffer overflow This allows hackers to remotely access theRead More →
Ransomware has become a popular criminal business with a relatively easy entrance. Even the people with little technical knowledge can build their own ransomware based on open source code, thatRead More →
Security researchers have had a busy week since the WannaCry ransomware outbreak that wreaked havoc on computers worldwide. News of the infection and the subsequent viral images showing everything fromRead More →
Short Bytes: WannaCry 2.0 or WannaDecrypt0r 2.0 ransomware is turning out to be one of the biggest security threats of recent times. It has spread in over 150 countries and affectedRead More →
